| Trump should follow the Bill Clinton scandal playbook Posted: 19 May 2017 02:00 AM PDT  Trump has an unlikely model for how to survive an existential threat to his presidency: Bill Clinton.
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| Times Square Crash: Surveillance Video Shows Horrific Scene Posted: 19 May 2017 08:38 AM PDT  Richard Rojas allegedly drove his car onto a Times Square sidewalk, killing one person and injuring 22 others. He was charged with murder, attempted murder and aggravated vehicular homicide.
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| Comey tried to hide in curtains at White House gathering to avoid Trump: Report Posted: 19 May 2017 05:58 AM PDT  According to a friend, former FBI Director James Comey tried to hide in the curtains at a White House ceremony to avoid an awkward interaction with President Trump.
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| Video: Erdogan watches security guards beat protesters in Washington Posted: 19 May 2017 09:31 AM PDT  New footage surfaced showing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan looking on stoically as members of his security detail beat civilians.
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| The End of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Posted: 19 May 2017 08:57 AM PDT  After nearly 150 years, the show will not go on for the iconic Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which is performing its final act Sunday.
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| The Latest: Juror says cop shouldn't return to patrol duty Posted: 19 May 2017 12:49 PM PDT  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Latest on the not guilty verdict in the manslaughter trial of a white Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man (all times local):
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| Sweden drops rape investigation of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange Posted: 19 May 2017 08:12 AM PDT  Sweden has dropped a rape investigation of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Assange has been living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012. If Assange leaves the embassy, London authorities can still arrest him for jumping bail in 2012.
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| Chris Cornell Police Report Reveals New Details About Musician's Suicide Posted: 19 May 2017 01:34 PM PDT  A police report revealed new details surrounding the death of Audioslave and Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell.
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| Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner 'person of interest in Russia investigation' Posted: 19 May 2017 01:46 PM PDT  Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has reportedly been identified as a "person of interest" in the ongoing investigation into possible ties between Russia and Donald Trump's campaign. The Washington Post said a senior adviser to Mr Trump was among people investigators wanted to speak to. A New York magazine reporter then said the person in question was Mr Kushner, 36, who is married to Mr Trump's eldest daughter and who flew out of Washington on Friday night to accompany the President on his first official foreign trip.
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| 4th-grader apologizes to governor for horrible crime of stealing a pen and a hazelnut Posted: 19 May 2017 11:36 AM PDT  Sometimes the guilt of a crime is just too much to bear, and the perpetrator has to come clean or risk bearing the weight of his transgression for a lifetime. For an Oregon fourth-grader, that crime was theft. The theft of a pen. Oh, and also a single hazelnut, from an undisclosed mixed nut bowl perhaps. Oregon governor Kate Brown received a letter from Samuel, a fourth-grader who had recently visited the Capitol building, apologizing for a theft that had somehow gone unnoticed. SEE ALSO: Kraft ad teaches moms how to swear in front of their 'monkey-flunking' kids Samuel explained what he did and apologized, writing "these things were not mine and it was wrong for me to take them I'm very sorry." He included the pen as well as a single dollar to reimburse the cost of the hazelnut. It is one of the more luxurious nuts, after all. Samuel asked for the forgiveness of both the governor and the people of Oregon and generously, Brown granted him that peace in a handwritten note. WATCH: This toddler monitor is helping parents track their roaming kids
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| Lola Wasn't Alone Posted: 19 May 2017 10:23 AM PDT ![Lola Wasn't Alone]( "Lola Wasn't Alone") There are few subjects more painful than slavery. The word itself conjures images of the most shameful and ugly parts of humanity and our past, histories most would prefer to distance themselves from. This may in part be why, in just two short days, The Atlantic's article "My Family's Slave," by the journalist Alex Tizon about his family's enslavement of a woman named Eudocia "Lola" Tomas Pulido, has caught the attention of and moved thousands of readers. The title itself is shocking in its admission of slavery tucked right into a modern American home.
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| Black leaders to Tulsa: Act on pledges of racial harmony Posted: 18 May 2017 05:43 PM PDT TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tulsa community leaders say the acquittal of a white Oklahoma police officer who killed an unarmed black man ripped open a long-festering wound.
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| Puerto Rico retirees will get bankruptcy committee: U.S. Trustee Posted: 19 May 2017 01:10 PM PDT  By Nick Brown NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog said on Friday it plans to appoint a committee of retirees in Puerto Rico's bankruptcy to negotiate for pensioners facing benefit cuts as part of the island's debt restructuring. Puerto Rico, carrying some $50 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, "clearly needs a retiree committee and sooner rather than later," the office of the U.S. Trustee said in a filing in federal court in San Juan. Puerto Rico filed the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history earlier this month.
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| Fate Of Late Roger Ailes' Sexual Harassment Cases Posted: 18 May 2017 11:48 PM PDT  The sexual harassment cases filed against Roger Ailes by Andrea Tantaros and Julie Roginsky may get caught up in complications following an old New York law.
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| Philippines' Duterte: China threatened 'war' over sea row Posted: 19 May 2017 06:34 AM PDT  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday China's leaders told him they were prepared to go to war over competing claims in the South China Sea. Duterte, who met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing this week, said he was making the threat public in response to domestic criticism he was being too weak with China over the dispute. China claims most of the sea, a key waterway for global shipping, and has reclaimed disputed reefs and installed military facilities on them.
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| Syria says US airstrike killed several soldiers near Jordan Posted: 19 May 2017 10:44 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian military official said Friday that an aerial "aggression" by the U.S.-led coalition on a government military position near the border with Jordan the day before killed several soldiers and caused material damage.
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| Ignore Donald Trump's words on his foreign tour. Pay attention to his actions Posted: 20 May 2017 08:31 AM PDT  Donald Trump is a man full of good ideas. On Friday, Trump hightailed it out of a confrontational United States to begin his auspicious first foreign trip as president. Previous US presidents have visited either Canada or Mexico on their initial ventures out of the country but – as everyone knows – you can drive to those countries from the United States, so they don't really count.
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| Times Square, protests, Weiner and more — it happened today: May 19 in pictures Posted: 19 May 2017 11:43 AM PDT ![Times Square, protests, Weiner and more — it happened today: May 19 in pictures]( "Times Square, protests, Weiner and more — it happened today: May 19 in pictures") Times Square driver and Anthony Weiner appear in court, and more of today's news from around the world in pictures.
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| ScootinAmerica - Eight Veterans to Receive Free Harleys Posted: 19 May 2017 09:25 AM PDT  ScootinAmerica - Eight Veterans to Receive Free Harleys Harley-Davidson has joined Adam Sandoval, founder of ScootinAmerica , an initiative that focuses on giving back to our military members, to launch MISSION: "THANK YOU". The project began this morning at
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| Yale University Dean Suspended Over Yelp Reviews Posted: 18 May 2017 09:07 PM PDT  June Chu has written many racist reviews on Yelp, even calling a restaurant "white trash." She was suspended on Thursday, following her "reprehensible posts."
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| This Health Insurance Company Is Hiring 300+ Work-From-Home Employees Posted: 19 May 2017 11:04 AM PDT  With full benefits!
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| Turkish president watched his security detail clash with protesters in D.C. Posted: 19 May 2017 07:35 AM PDT Fighting erupted between protesters and the security detail of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan during his Washington visit this week. Video shows Erdogan emerging from his limo and watching the skirmish unfold.
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| The Latest: Trump denies asking Comey to shelve Flynn probe Posted: 18 May 2017 11:26 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):
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| Mission unaccomplished: Uganda halts hunt for LRA warlord Posted: 19 May 2017 09:08 PM PDT  Sweat soaks into the bright red neckerchiefs of the soldiers slouching to attention on a steamy parade ground deep in the inaccessible forests of Central African Republic (CAR). The military display marked the end of a failed years-long hunt for Joseph Kony, leader of the notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group that has its origins in 1980s Uganda. Lieutenant Hubert Zinja, spokesman for Central African troops in the town of Obo -- until this week the nerve centre of the US-backed, Ugandan-led hunt for Kony -- insisted they were up to the job.
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| Disgraced Former Congressman Anthony Weiner To Plead Guilty to Sexting With Minor Posted: 19 May 2017 08:05 AM PDT  Weiner could end up as a registered sex offender.
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| Full tanks and tankers: a stubborn oil glut despite OPEC cuts Posted: 19 May 2017 03:03 AM PDT  By Catherine Ngai NEW YORK/LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - After the first OPEC oil production cut in eight years took effect in January, oil traders from Houston to Singapore started emptying millions of barrels of crude from storage tanks. Now, many of those same storage tanks are filling back up or draining more slowly than investors and oil firms had expected, according to global inventory estimates and more than a dozen oil traders and shipping sources who told Reuters about storage in facilities that do not make their oil volumes public. The stalled drawdowns shed light on the broader challenge facing OPEC - the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries - as it struggles to steer the industry out of the downturn caused by oversupply.
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| Mary Vaughn Sues Ex-Husband Steve Harvey Posted: 18 May 2017 11:57 PM PDT  Mary Vaughn is suing her ex-husband Steve Harvey after their bitter divorce more than a decade ago.
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| President Trump's first trip abroad Posted: 20 May 2017 12:32 PM PDT ![President Trump's first trip abroad]( "President Trump's first trip abroad") President Trump's first foreign voyage will be an astonishingly ambitious adventure — Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican, a NATO summit in Brussels, and a Group of Seven (i.e.: rich country) gathering in Sicily. He's coming with a packed agenda of the weightiest issues in global affairs, like defeating ISIS, containing Iran, convincing the Muslim world to confront extremism, overhauling relations with crucial allies in Europe and Asia, and forging Middle East peace.
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| 8 hurt after jet collides with truck on service road at Los Angeles International Airport Posted: 20 May 2017 04:19 PM PDT  A single-aisle commercial passenger jet collided with a supply truck that overturned Saturday afternoon on a service road at Los Angeles Airport, authorities said.
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| Trump abroad: World leaders told to praise electoral college win and use lots of pictures in documents Posted: 19 May 2017 12:59 PM PDT  Mr Trump flew out of the capital for a trip that White House aides said they hoped would trigger a "reset" after weeks of controversy and chaos. The President will stop in Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican – the "homelands and holy sites" of the world's three major religions – before heading to summits in Belgium and Italy. Mr Trump was reportedly reluctant to leave for the trip, even telling one aide he felt it should be cut in half.
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| The Latest: Bouncer tackled fleeing Times Square driver Posted: 18 May 2017 05:59 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on a car striking pedestrians in Times Square (all times local):
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| What Melania Wore: First lady's Saudi style a big deal Posted: 19 May 2017 05:11 PM PDT  What women wear can often be the focus of critique and controversy -- all the more so when the woman is an ex-model, married to the US president and disembarking in Saudi Arabia. The question of what first lady Melania Trump would wear on her husband's his first foreign trip echoes similar debates around Michelle Obama's decision to wear colour -- blue and white -- and not cover her hair on a visit to ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia.
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| 'I blew him away': Retiree charged in Amtrak shooting Posted: 19 May 2017 03:07 PM PDT  WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — A retired federal law enforcement officer from Wisconsin told investigators he shot and seriously injured an Amtrak train conductor because he wasn't allowed to de-board early at a suburban Chicago stop, prosecutors said Friday.
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| China, ASEAN agree on framework for South China Sea code of conduct Posted: 18 May 2017 05:45 PM PDT ![China, ASEAN agree on framework for South China Sea code of conduct]( "China, ASEAN agree on framework for South China Sea code of conduct") China and Southeast Asian countries agreed on Thursday to a framework for a long-mooted code of conduct for the disputed South China Sea, China's foreign ministry said, as both sides step up efforts to ease tension in the strategic waterway. China and the members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) had been hoping to agree on the framework this year, 15 years after committing to draft it. After a meeting between Chinese and ASEAN officials in the Chinese city of Guiyang, China's foreign ministry said the framework had been agreed upon, but gave no details of its contents.
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| Mom Tries - and Fails - to Wake Teen Who Fell Asleep Inside Locked Car Posted: 19 May 2017 02:22 PM PDT  Even the sound of a car horn wouldn't wake her.
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| Ancient Aboriginal Australians Left Behind Artifacts From 51,000 Years Ago Posted: 19 May 2017 02:08 PM PDT  Artifacts left behind by Australia's first human settlers show they got to the area as early as 51,000 years ago and were able to adapt to a changing coastal environment.
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| Luis Fonsi On Justin Bieber's Spanish, 'Despacito' Hitting No. 1 Posted: 19 May 2017 04:53 AM PDT  Luis Fonsi joined NBC Latino to discuss his hit song "Despacito," Justin Bieber's Spanish, and what words he has for abuelas listening to his music.
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| Ryan says to send health bill to Senate after CBO score Posted: 19 May 2017 12:33 PM PDT  By Susan Heavey and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives will send its healthcare overhaul plan passed this month to the Senate after it receives a final analysis by congressional reviewers, probably in a couple of weeks, House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Friday. Ryan said in a radio interview that the delay was "out of an abundance of caution" until the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) releases its findings on the legislation's costs and its impact on health insurance coverage. The CBO's analysis, or "score," is expected late Wednesday, taking into account final changes to the bill before it passed the Republican-led House earlier this month.
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| Basquiat painting fetches record $110.5M at New York auction Posted: 18 May 2017 10:56 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A 1982 artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for a record $110.5 million at Sotheby's auction of contemporary art Thursday night.
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| Donald Trump urged to hire experienced outside counsel for Russia probe by White House aides Posted: 19 May 2017 05:31 AM PDT  Following the news that the Department of Justice had appointed a special counsel, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, to lead a probe into the alleged connections, the president has been told he may benefit from retained additional lawyers to those whose services he has already made use of. Advisers and personal associates of Mr Trump have been increasingly concerned since details have emerged of conversations he had with James Comey, the FBI Director, in which he purportedly asked for Mr Comey's loyalty and suggested he drop an ongoing investigation into his former national security advisor, Michael Flynn. This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!
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| The Latest: Report: In 2012, NYC driver wanted to kill cops Posted: 19 May 2017 11:26 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the driver in a Times Square crashed that killed one person and injuring 22 others (all times local):
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